…the purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

...Hope is a ridiculous failing that we need to harbour in order to lead a serene life…

...No reformer is worthy of the name if he fails to be the ultimate pacesetter in his own reform drive...

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest....

...There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...

...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...

These quasi-faithful are growing in strength. They are the fundamentalists today, and they abound in all the religions.

Politicians like the effect of alcohol because it makes them feel important.

Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings.

Faith goes hand in hand with the belief in a supreme purpose that includes everybody, a purpose that is for mankind’s ultimate peace, harmony and happiness.

Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.

Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

The big fire has no right to despise the little spark!